The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
Our nation has moved from the cold war to the trade war.
Disputes follow trade. That is a fact of life
The interest of the landlords is always opposed to the interest of every other class in the community.
Most future wars will be conflicts for commerce.
The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.
Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one poor - both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other? Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare? Since when do we in America endorse the politics of envy and division?
To the extent that the Trump administration doesn't like a strong dollar, something has got to give, and just yelling at other countries for devaluing when you're raising rates and they're cutting rates is not going to work.
To advocate both for more immigration and for faster wage growth for the working and middle class is to work at cross-purposes.
If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the economy, but writers just have to face up to the fact that there are some fundamental tensions between the economic order and the biological order.
To the working class there is no foreigner but the capitalist.
From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.
A trade war is a conflict in which each side uses most of its ammunition to shoot itself in the foot.
If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . . [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity . . . in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself.
Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity:..
The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve as little labor as possible. And so the standards of cheapness and convenience, which are irresistibly simplifying and therefore inevitably exploitive, have been substituted for the standard of health (of both people and land), which would enforce consideration of essential complexities.
As capitalists are in one another’s hair at home, they are at one another’s throats internationally.
Racism is not nearly as important as poverty. That's the same around the world. What look like ethnic problems are really economic issues. If you look closely at all these conflicts around the world, they come down to poverty and economics and resources. The more poverty, the worse the war.
There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.
Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.
This softwood lumber dispute is a very old dispute that almost follows a dynamic entirely of its own that is actually somewhat independent of the issues of the issues that are bothering the president Donald Trump on NAFTA.
Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
We're already in a trade war with China. The problem is we've not been fighting back. Trump, through tariffs, wants to call a truce.
I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
